The Long Swell
Where the climate is abnormal this week, and how bad
What it does
Every week we measure where the climate is behaving abnormally: heat, fires, crops and El Niño. Each place is compared against its own historical record, not a global average, so the number means something local. Sources named and dated on every figure.
Where the climate is abnormal this week, measured against each place's own record. 99% chance of a 1997/2015-magnitude El Niño peak.
Only what clears a stated bar is drawn: fires at three times its own same-week mean or more, crops with three or more regions at a record low. 29 more crop countries and 3 more fire countries passed their own record without clearing it; each is counted on its channel page. Marks are sized within a channel, never across. How this is built → We find climate signals in the data, and send you the ones that matter. Confirmation email required. No spam, and the archive stays free and public whether you subscribe or not. What you get, and how oftenfrom thelongswell.com
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